Well.
Feels like I need to fucking retire the Vibes Menu idea. No matter how much I try to say "no this isn't a fucking checklist, it's a flavour palate" people seem to just maliciously miss the point.
Time to try to sit down and find a new way to more clearly say:
I have an extremely hard time actually settling on ideas for commission pieces. "Wing it" or similar just fills me with anxiety and option paralysis. You want to give me money to draw your character, I want to draw your CHARACTER, not just them soullessly posing in a contextless void.
and like yeah, I know a lot of my backgrounds are just Lo's cool cloud brush over some gradient shapes.
But I like to put fucking emotion into a piece. There's a reason "Flirty" is my example of a bad commission prompt.
Are they sly/subtle or really forward? Confident or shy? Dom or Sub? Switch? Each of these questions really changes how a pose and expression could come together but every iteration of that is "flirty"
so yeah, I tried the vibes menu as a way to say "hey here's some loose ideas of the things I'm interested in drawing right now." As a way to actually encourage that deeper talk.
A solid half of the commission requests I've gotten since I started seemed to view it as a challenge to say "oh just give me all of it" as if it's a venn diagram and I've got a super lewd sketch in my pocket just WAITING for someone to ask for it.
@Draekos Sorry--I guess I misunderstood what the problem was then.
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@Draekos I thought you were saying the problem was that people were trying to include too many things in one thing, I didn't really know what you were talking about exactly
I shouldn't have tried to help without knowing more about what the actual problem was, sorry
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@Felthry https://yiff.life/@Draekos/107316614053155587 first post of the thread this is part of.
@Draekos sorry--i did read the whole thread, i think i just completely misunderstood what the problem was
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@Felthry if I can try to complain this directly about it and still be misunderstood so completely, then I fucking don't know what I'm doing wrong.
@Draekos I think it's my fault not yours
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@Draekos sorry. i wanted to help but i think i just made things worse. please don't blame yourself for that
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@Felthry darling. The thread was complaining about the volume of people who make the mistake you just did and how I have no idea how to talk to them.
I don't think its YOU.
@Draekos at the very least I understand what it is now, though I don't think that will help with getting the point across to others.
still, I apologize, I should read things more carefully
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@Felthry literally proving my point on why the idea was a failure. thank you.